On Wednesday, March 25, at 8:00 a.m. ET, the Atlantic Council’s Strategic Litigation Project—in partnership with Human Rights Watch, the Genocide Studies Program at Yale’s MacMillan Center, and the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect—will host a side event on the margins of the sixty-first session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva.
For over a decade, the Chinese government has carried out a sustained campaign to intimidate, detain, and disappear ethnic and religious groups. This campaign is pervasive throughout Xinjiang and beyond China’s borders, where the Uyghur diaspora constitutes a primary target.
This event will bring together experts to examine violations of international law posed by China’s targeting of Uyghurs at home and abroad.
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Speakers
Nicolas Levrat
United Nations Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues
Ethan Hee-Seok Shin
Member of the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
Yalkun Uluyol
China Researcher,
Human Rights Watch
Elisabeth Pramendorfer
Senior Human Rights Officer,
Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect
Moderator
Rayhan Asat
Senior Legal & Policy Advisor, China Project Lead,
Atlantic Council’s Strategic Litigation Project
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